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From stuff like this. I mean seriously. Hand over your social security number, credit card details and address and we’ll tell you if you’ve been scammed. Lordy! The answer’s yes. What a surprise!

What a nose – hazelnut, oatmeal, sweet white fruit, smoke, spice, and a touch of nutmeg. Stirring nose. Ripe, spicy, sublime, succulent grapefruit, pear. Perfect balance. Holy shit.

Not that I always just blatantly rip posts from MetaFilter, but here’s another one… Unusual oddness at Wikipedia, including the awesome List of songs in English labeled the worst ever and List of songs whose title constitutes the entire lyrics.

Doug puts it much more eloquently than me, so instead I will just point you at this article at the Toronto Star.

You can’t always get what you want

The lovely Mark recently lent me the Fields of the Nephilim DVD with all 3 of the original VHS tapes on one Disc – Revelations, Forever Remain and Visionary Heads. I was at the Cheltenham Town Hall gig on the tour that created both Earth Inferno and Visionary Heads. It changed my life. Properly. And forever. That one gig made me wear filthy black jeans and all sorts of other paraphernalia for the next 3 years (including, god bless my youthful soul, a stint in violet contact lenses)

Watching it on DVD 16 years later is more than a little fucking weird, frankly. I remember the gig as this quasi-religious experience of smoke machines, pounding drums and driving guitars that left me unable to speak for hours. I certainly never actually saw the band; backlit plumes of dry ice filled the venue for the whole gig. Seeing them on stage in crisp video footage now makes the whole experience somewhat more real, which I’m just not happy about. I think I prefer Earth Inferno (recorded at the same gig as Visionary Heads). The magic is a little more alive when I can’t actually /see/ them. That is, after all, how it was at the time. That said, as an introduction to the best ever live goth band this DVD is unbeatable. Just try and fill your eyes with dry ice and marijuana smoke and your head with snakebite and black when you’re watching it…

Oh, oh, oh. While we’re gothing out for a moment. Look at this: A Merciful Release. Finally, finally, finally the original mix of First and Last and Always on CD, as well as Blood Money, Long Train and Emma on CD for the first time as well. Now that, ladies and gentleman, is worth �15.99. The question on everyone’s lips (as this is a Warner release) is… Has Monsieur Eldritch finally sorted it out with Warner, or is this against his wishes? The official web site hasn’t said anything since last year’s tour, but the evidence suggests he has.

Nope, not large moustached nutters in Cornwall, but one of the finest pieces of television I ever saw…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk3E8WI1IkY]

What I didn’t know was that it was originally recorded by Frank Sinatra…

This nation is a place where Apple Macintosh users cannot bank online, make any purchases online, or interact with any of the nation’s e-government sites online. In fact, Linux users, Mozilla Firefox users and Opera users are also banned from any of these types of transactions because..,

Worth reading the rest…

Sales reps who drive about 30,000 miles a year often have brown marks and red veins on their right cheek but not their left, he says, because UVB light travels through a car’s side windows but not windscreens.

It’s actually an article about not photocopying your face (well, dur), but I couldn’t resist that paragraph.

The 20 greatest guitar solos of all time. All of ‘em on YouTube. I love YouTube. A lot.

No. Not masturbation, but yet more YouTube StarWars goodness…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IbV7ad2xgY]